Global Wahrman

draft Tom Sito on Facebook posted the following on the history of the Pocohontas story (which became of course a very nice Disney movie...

draft The districts we have lost in special elections were always going to be long shots. But I think that the Republicans are correc...

Lets now move beyond the grim reality of the collapse of our political system, and lighten things up around here by considering whether o...

In this post, I review the book that historians wrote about the issues involved in the disaster of the Enola Gay exhibition at the Smith...

Those of you who were raised on the west coast may not be as aware of the higher forms of society that exist in this country. But those ...

As part of low self esteem, I have noticed that my friends in San Francisco or Cambridge MA are by their very nature more in touch with the...

the rewrite The following essay does NOT contain any spoilers beyond a throw-away joke at the beginning of a play. Once upon a time...

The Atlas of Historical Geography of the United States was written by Charles Paullin, a historian for the US Navy, between 1912 and 1932...

Choosing a label for something, whether a car, a novel or a political movement, is a tricky thing.   It requires inspiration to do well an...

As we stare into the darkness of the inevitable failure of our lives, what could be better than to waste a little time looking up things ...

Its the 4th of July here in Rancho Rincon del Diablo, the Devil's Place. Hell. A white, right-wing Republican stronghold that comp...

On Oct 13, 1912, two and a half years after the approach of Halley's Comet to the earth, the Salt Lake Tribune's Sunday Section as...

Espionage and spying was one of the defining characteristics of the Cold War. It is easy to be nostalgic about the Cold War, of course. ...

[Revised 1-12-2013] I wrote this silly essay not because I am a genius who knows everything, but because it sounds to me that people aroun...